GTD App Review - Toodledo

Toodledo is an extremely feature rich web app but unfortunately this is also its falldown. The UI is complicated and not pleasant to use. However it is very reasonably priced.

This large number of features does have a silver lining. Toodledo allows third-party developers to create apps using its API. Apps can be created which aren’t constrained by lack of meta-data about a task or features. The apps can then provide a simplified pleasant UI. This has already happened with Due Today and TODO for Mac. Both have a great user experience. With over third-party 50 apps, there’s already plenty of choice.

Downsides

The poor user experience. It’s trying to be something to everybody, which is making it difficult to use. There’s very little that is good about the UI. It’s busy, lacks contrast, cramped, small, confusing, inconsistent, baffling. I’ll stop there, you can probably guess I don’t like it.

There’s no task count to show how many tasks are in a folder/list.UPDATE mhm08 (from GTD forum) pointed out that this a setting you need to turn on.

Lack of drag and drop, means organising tasks is done by editing each one individually.

Puzzling

The UI.

Useful Extras

Loads of integration with other services. Eg Twitter, email, rss, Firefox and more.

Share your list with other people, for reading or adding/editing.

Tasks can be assigned to goals, so you can track whether you are meeting your high level life goals.